Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 directed the U.S. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law ’s latest paper, Permitting CO 2 Pipelines: Assessing the Landscape of Federal and State Regulations , assesses the legal framework for developing CO 2 pipelines to support DAC Hub projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2022

Efforts to protect the planet from climate change, however, depend on the states and the federal government sharing responsibilities. Private utilities with multistate territories are accepted by state regulators. The federal government’s role is dominant in interstate commerce and the flow of electricity between states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

In a presentation to North Carolina regulators, Duke named several specific resources it lost during the storm—all fossil fuel generators—but didn’t provide a detailed breakdown of what types of failures prompted it to begin rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve. Where do we go from here?

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Beasley School of Law on Oil and Gas Law, Superfund Litigation, Global Climate Change Law, and Environmental Law and at Suffolk (Boston) University Law School teaching Environmental Litigation starting in 2021. Since 1990, he has been an adjunct professor instructing aspiring attorneys at the Temple University James E.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. Debt-fueled boom and gas-friendly policies.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] Read more here.] .:

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As we head into the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), issues surrounding the impact of climate change in the Caribbean are high on the agenda. So why is the Caribbean Community making such a big fuss?

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

in 2021, according to LinkedIn’s Green Skills Report. Policy drivers: decarbonisation targets lead the way The increase in green jobs is mostly down to policy changes. The decarbonisation target prompted a shift towards climate change. The rise of ESG is changing that. in 2015 to 13.3%

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Today, the Government of Canada announced that draft regulations prohibiting certain single-use plastics have been published for public comment. It is the Government’s intention to finalize these Regulations and bring the ban into force as quickly as possible and as early as late 2022 after reviewing and considering comments received.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Conventional oil and gas operators racked up 4,386 violations of environmental regulations in calendar year 2021 alone. In an October 2020 presentation to the Climate Change Advisory Committee, DEP said in 2018 two conventional oil and gas well operators abandoned approximately 2,750 oil and gas wells between them.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Author: Sorcha Brennan Professor Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 she has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We have to address that inequality if we want to address climate change.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In the global effort to protect the earth’s climate, the pace of regulation is rivaled only by the speed of technological innovation. While the SEC’s climate disclosure rules are pending, and will probably face litigation when final, regulations from other agencies and jurisdictions are likely to affect U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

Chevron’s shareholders clearly disagreed when 61 percent of them voted for a 2021 resolution requesting that the company “substantially reduce” its Scope 3 emissions.) The standard includes 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, such as transportation and distribution of products, employee travel, and use of commercial products.

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Law Columbia

MAY 19, 2023

Since President Biden took office in January 2021, his administration has been proactive in its efforts to fulfill his campaign promise to place climate issues at the forefront of his presidential agenda. and its economy, infrastructure, and markets. and its economy, infrastructure, and markets.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. The Court found that he had – the impacts of climate change would indeed engage rights that fit within the categories identified in existing case law.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

News - Best Lawyers has named Arnold & Porter as a "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Litigation - Environmental" category. Arnold & Porter's was also named "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Environmental Law" category in 2021. Financial Services Regulation Law. Securities Regulation. The 2022 edition of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

Urban and suburban polluted runoff is increasing amid inconsistent enforcement by government agencies, new development, and climate change. The same practices make farms more resilient to climate change and its effects. Efforts to restore the Bay are struggling to reduce agricultural pollution.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Multiple reports , including the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States , have highlighted the risk that extreme heat poses to worker health and labor productivity. These are all positive developments in adapting to what has been the most lethal climate disaster of our time.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Each of the 18 regulated substances were assigned a corresponding MTEVe exchange value. List of the 18 Regulated HFC Substances & their Corresponding Exchange Values – 42 U.S.C. A $5,000,000 annual allowance for fiscal years 2021-2023 is listed in the Act for small business grants. . 7675 subsection (c)(1): .

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. City of San Diego (2021) Cal.App.5th.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

One such matter that already has received significant regulatory attention is company disclosure of climate-related and other ESG-related risks. N:Bank of America Press Release, Bank of America Announces Actions to Achieve Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions before 2050 , February 11, 2021.]] N: See also , The U.S.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

CEQ proclaims that the administration “is committed to accelerating the responsible development and deployment of CCUS to make it a widely available, increasingly cost-effective, and rapidly scalable climate solution across all industrial sectors.” © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2022

Last year Scottsdale authorities, concerned about the effects of the megadrought and the August 2021 federal Colorado River water shortage declaration, decided to protect the city’s 241,000 residents. That seems certain to change. And soon, because of climate change. million acre-feet, 25 percent lower than today.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2023

It will also worsen global climate change. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. stimulations of th[e] lease, [and] the Secretary of the Interior’s regulations and formal orders.” (It The Biden administration could not, therefore, unilaterally cancel ConocoPhillips’ leases.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

DEP issued 1,360 NOVs to unconventional shale gas well operators in 2022 and 1,323 NOVs in 2021, according to DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

DEP also reported the percentage of wastewater recycled or reused in production and fracking at other natural gas wells dropped from 93% in 2021 to 88% in 2022. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

Financial institution coalitions focused on responding to the market effects of climate change have been a particular target. Most of the rhetoric and activity has occurred in the first two categories in the US, so we focus there, in an effort to differentiate political narratives from legal reality.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The proposed temporary Manual 13 changes state that PJM may request a generation owner to move steam units (generally coal fired) into the Maximum Emergency category if the resource’s remaining run time falls below 240 hours (10 days), meaning the units could be restricted from operating during the time unless required to meet reliability needs.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. EPA to overturn Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

President Biden’s May 2021 Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk is showing results. While the financial world is still waiting for key climate-related rules from several financial regulators, including the Security Exchange Commission (SEC), there has been some forward progress in recent weeks.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 146. May 17, 2021). May 24, 2021).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Since the election, not a week has passed without news that ESG is an increasingly critical focus of the financial regulators, federal and state lawmakers, and investors. We also summarize the issue of climate-related disclosures from the perspective of the banking regulators. Last week may have been the most newsworthy yet.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

This is a deep-red county in a Republican state, and the term climate change rarely comes up. Horry County gained almost 100,000 people between 2010 and 2021. The real estate frenzy has leveled off somewhat since interest rates began rising in mid-2022, but the overall trends are unlikely to change.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. July 15, 2021). and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule on Tuesday, November 22, allowing plan fiduciaries to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) characteristics when they choose investments and exercise shareholder rights, reversing a Trump-era rule that sought to constrain this type of risk analysis.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2021 the Biden Administration reversed the Trump-era rollbacks and instituted the strictest-ever vehicle GHG emissions standards in a move aimed at preventing 3.1

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